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IMPORTANT NOTICES
What if my child is unwell?
Any child who is showing signs of illness or feeling unwell, must stay at home.
If a child is showing signs of illness at school, the school will contact the parent or carer to collect the child.
What if my child is unwell?
Any child who is showing signs of illness or feeling unwell, must stay at home.
If they are experiencing any COVID-19 symptoms , no matter how mild, call your doctor or 13HEALTH (13 43 25 84) and get tested . Read more about COVID-19 and your child’s health .
If a child is showing signs of illness at school, the school will contact the parent or carer to collect the child.
Curriculum
Congratulations to Judy Loudon who has now been appointed Head Of Department (Curriculum) at New Farm. Judy was previously our Inclusion Coach and brings a strength of knowledge in Curriculum and Inclusion to the role. As HOD Judy will lead staff in the implementation of version 8 of the Australian Curriculum with a focus on moderation of student achievement standards in 2022.
Well-being
Our 2022 well-being focus is the implementation of our student ‘Second Steps’ program and its alignment with our Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) program. Deputy Principal Kay Bradley worked with all teaching staff last week to train them in the new program and develop a consistent approach to the implementation.
Read Write Inc Parent Training
RWI is our synthetic phonics program which is taught in years Prep, Year 1 and Year 2. It is also taught for some students in other years where needed. To date we have had outstanding results with significant improvements in our English results. We would like to share the ways RWI is taught and the reasons behind its teaching strategies.
Literacy & Numeracy Coach Sandy Chambers will be presenting the session in the hall this Friday 18 March 9-10 am. Thank you to those parents who have already responded to the RWI parent training session invitation. If you still wish to attend, please email scham35@eq.edu.au to let us know.
Year 6 Outdoor Camp
Next week our year 6 students and staff will attend Moreton Island camp. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about our local marine environment and build their leadership skills. The outdoor experiences are both fun and challenging and staff will encourage everyone’s full participation to make the most of this opportunity for learning and personal growth.
National Day of Action- Friday 18 March - in class activites for each year level.
Kay Bradley
Friday 18 March 2022 is the National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence (NDA). This week we will be learning about and discussing Bullying.
Australia’s key bullying prevention initiative, celebrates 12 years of action, connecting schools and communities to find workable solutions to prevent bullying.
The theme for 2022 is Kindness Culture. By building a Kindness Culture together, we can promote inclusion, respect and community belonging, for all students in schools across Australia.
At New Farm State School, we use the agreed national definition for Australian schools which describes bullying as:
- ongoing and deliberate misuse of power in relationships through repeated verbal, physical and/or social behaviour that intends to cause physical, social and/or psychological harm;
- involving an individual or a group misusing their power, or perceived power, over one or more persons who feel unable to stop it from happening;
- happening in person or online, via various digital platforms and devices and it can be obvious (overt) or hidden (covert).
- Bullying behaviour is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time (for example, through sharing of digital records);
- having immediate, medium and long-term effects on those involved, including bystanders.
Behaviours that do not constitute bullying include:
- mutual arguments and disagreements (where there is no power imbalance)
- not liking someone or a single act of social rejection
- one-off acts of meanness or spite
- isolated incidents of aggression, intimidation or violence.
Second Step – Social Emotional Learning Program
Our School focus this week is Trying Your best. The explicit lessons for each year level will look slightly different. Ask your child about their Second Step lesson, detailed below, and practice the skills at home.
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Skills for Learning –
Try Your Best |
Prep and Year 1
Focussing Attention |
Year 2
Being Respectful |
Year 3
Using Self Talk |
Year 4 - 6
Empathy and Respect |
Active Travel School Project
We are excited to announce that New Farm State School is now a part of The Active School Travel (AST) program. This council run program offers Brisbane primary schools a suite of free resources, tools and incentives to enable students, parents, carers and teachers to leave the car at home and actively travel to school. It’s all about creating healthier, more active students and families, increasing road safety awareness, safer streets and continuing to tackle traffic congestion.
The award-winning three-year program promotes road safety and sustainable and healthy travel options such as walking, riding, scootering, carpooling and public transport.
We had a visit from the Active School characters today and will be having our first Active School Travel Day on Thursday the 24th of March.
Our Curriculum Pillar Committee met for the first time on the 4th March. Thank you to Persia Holloway for stepping up to continue as our parent representative. We discussed the Whole School Approach to Pedagogy, our Homework Framework, and student feedback. We will be continuing with this work at our next meeting on Friday 18th March 8:00am in the Curriculum Room.
Thank you to our Systems Technician, Andre, for updating our public website with current information in the Curriculum/Teaching and Learning section. You can read this using the link- https://newfarmss.eq.edu.au/curriculum/teaching-and-learning
Our Teachers will be meeting to plan for Term 2 units on Monday 21st March, Monday 28th and 29th March. Relief Teachers will take the classes for 2 hours on the allocated day, to allow for Teachers to attend their allocated meetings.
Date claimer- Yrs 3-6 Dance Concert 6:00pm Wednesday 30th March. Year 3 and 4 will dance 6:00-6:45pm and Years 4/5, 5 & 6 at 7:00-7:45pm. Please see attached flyer for details.
Wear BLUE for AUTISM
This Thursday 17 March, students can wear BLUE free dress for a gold coin donation to raise funds for AUTISM.
Whilst still wearing school hat and shoes, students can wear any blue sun safe tops and shorts. Autism research is important in helping people to live full productive lives, as supported by the AEIOU Foundation. This is the first event coordinated by the 2022 Community and Charity Project Group.
Tuckshop- Tuckshop closed till further notice BUT ice-blocks are for sale at 2nd break on Friday's.
Tuesday 29 March 6pm Annual General Meeting of the P & C. All executive positions available for nomination. A Block Level 1 curriculum room beside reception.
*All Executive and Officer Positions Vacant* -- Nominations OPEN -- AGM Tuesday 29 March 6pm
All positions and memberships LAPSE each year so all executive positions are available and need to be filled first or we do not have a P&C.
Please consider volunteering as many hands make lighter work for all!
Areas that come under the purview of the P&C:
- Running the Tuckshop
- Running the Secondhand Uniform Shop
- Running the Swim Club
- Fundraising and Events (whereby sufficient volunteers come forward to enable such iniatives to take place)
- Continuing projects currently underway (e.g. Beeston Street Garden, Little Patch)
If you are interested in any of the Executive positions, please fill out a membership form and a nomination and email to the secretary by Monday 28th March. If you would like more information about what is involved, all the information you will need is on the website https://www.pandcsqld.com.au/
Not sure if you would like to be involved yet? Fill out a membership form and return it prior to the AGM! The AGM is the ONLY meeting at which we can accept new members WITHOUT BEING PRESENT. Then, as a member you can monitor the agenda for topics you are interested and join in and vote if you like.
Being a member does not bring any obligations. Membership means you can participate in the decision making as only members can vote!
We look forward to seeing you there!
forms due by Monday 28 March to secretary@nfsspandc.com.au.
CALLING FOR VOLUNTEERS
The P&C will be serving drinks and snacks from the Tuckshop and collecting entry fees for the Dance Concert on Wednesday evening 30 March.
10 volunteers are needed to cover the two sessions. Please contact either the president or the secretary to volunteer. President@nfsspandc.com.au or secretary@nfsspandc.com.au
